spacewalk
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1. spacewalk - Noun
2. spacewalk - Verb
Meaning
move in space outside a space craft
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are making final preparations for a spacewalk scheduled for Friday, June 26.
During their historic first spacewalk together, "we caught each other's eye and we knew that we were really honored with this opportunity to inspire so many," Koch said in a NASA interview.
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to conduct an extravehicular activity (EVA), (commonly called a "spacewalk"), on March 18, 1965, on the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission.
During the Gemini 4 mission, White became the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk Another image of Edward White during Gemini 4 performing EVA main White was one of nine men chosen as part of the second group of astronauts in 1962.
During the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the Service Module.
In 2019, Anne McClain and Christina Koch were scheduled to conduct the first all-woman spacewalk — until NASA discovered that there weren’t two spacesuits that fit both astronauts.